General Instructions for the inflection of verse..... Marked extract (Pope). .148 .149 ib. ib. ..153 ..154 . ib. .155 to 162 .162 ..166 ib. ..167 DRAMATIC poetry.,. Remarks on reading.. Practice in rhythmical reading. POETICAL EXTRACTS- Portia's Speech on Mercy.....(Shaks.)..... Sabbath Morn. Happiness.. From the Tragedy of Ion.. Breathes there a man.... .(Id.). . . Death of Samson.. Boadicea. The Eagle.. Spring... The Clime of the East. The Passions... Henry V. before Harfleur.. PRACTICE ON- Articulation... Pronunciation. Intonation... Poetical Elocution. Rhythmical Reading.. PRONUNCIATION.... Practice on. PARENTHESIS- .(Grahame). .(Scott)... (Scott).. Pause. Pause, Inflection, and Emphasis,—Part I.. Part II.. Parenthetical members... (Milton). .(Cowper). (Percival). .(Willis). .(Byron). . (Collins). (Byron)... .p. 164 ib, 93 ..163 ..167 .170 .174 .183 .184 .185 ..186 .189 .191 ..194 ..195 .197 ..204 ..205 54 60 71 94 ..124 .185 ..188 .197 51 60 .105 ..106 How read... Rules for inflection of, PROSE EXTRACTS- Sense, Taste, and Genius. "Press on!". Storm at Sea.. Dante and Milton.. The Material and Spiritual in Poetry...(Id.).......126 QUANTITY- .p. 107 (H. Clay)..124 Evidence and Precedents in Law......(Erskine)...129 Extract from Ossian... RHETORICAL PAUSES..... RHYTHM, (see POETRY.) ..(Usher)......... 71 Brutus' speech to the populace (marked for intona- SERIES-SERIAL SENTENCES- What... Form of.... Simple and compound. Commencing and concluding. Rules of inflection on. Division of Series. Irregular Series. Exercise on... .149 86 How governed in the English language.. ... ib. The same, with reference to rhythm. ..63 to 74 .112 ib. ib. ib. .114 ib. .115 116 .118 .119 .120 ib. Antithetical....... Exercise in intonation of.. STAMMERING What, and its cure.. SUB-TONICS. What.. Table of. Exercise on.. TONICS... List of pure tonics... Table of pure and mixed tonics. Exercise on the tonics... Practice on articulation of.. TIME..... VOICE- Human voice a musical instrument... Inflection of..... Education of. Intonation... Economy of.. Weak voices.. How improved.. Pitch..... (See INTONATION, Expression, Pitch.) VOCAL GYMNASTICS- VOWEL SOUNDS.... -p. 121 Practice in articulation of.. 44 32 33 41 42 32 to 51 34 37 39 54 .178 75 ib. .145 ib. ib. Practice recommended to strengthen the lungs and ..208 .... ib. ib. ..143 .171 31 to 51 54 INDEX TO THE APPENDIX. EXERCISES IN PROSE-READING. Delicacy of Taste..... The Coliseum. .(Hume)..........p. 215 .(Robertson)...224 Conquest of Jerusalem by the Crusaders...(Gibbon)......227 Story of La Roche......... Modern Gallantry... Death and Character of Queen Elizabeth..(Hume).... Character of Mary, Queen of Scots.. Marie Antoinette. PROSE-DECLAMATION. .(Mackenzie)...231 Against the Charge of British Predilection. (Randolph)... 257 .259 Emmet's Speech before Sentence of Death.. In favor of the Greek Revolution.. .(Clay).. Progress of Poetry-an ode. .219 ....... Pitt's Reply to Walpole.. Eulogy on Washington... .(Webster)....270 Against Paine's "Age of Reason,”. .(Erskine).....273 POETICAL READING AND RECITATIONS. ..263 ..267 ..268 ...(Gray).......277 |